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Goodfellow plucked me by the arm. "Terribly hasty friends you keep in these parts, Brooks," he said plaintively. "What's it all about?" "Why, murder!" said I. "Haven't you heard, man?" "Not a syllable! Good Lord, you don't mean " He passed a shaky hand over his forehead as a cry rang back to us through the coppice. "Here, Hosken, this way! Oh, by the Almighty, be quick, man!"
How is it, then, that Herman's handwriting was thick and stunted when he registered at seven o'clock and slender and a bit shaky when he wrote this card at, say, half-past ten or eleven? Of course, Herman, or whatever his real name is, never wrote the line on that card, and never pinned that card on his door!"
But the game's up now, and it's no more use a-lyin'." "Never a truer word spoken," returned Cleek, with a little triumphant smile. "I must admit, your Lordship, that upon that one point I was a little shaky. Borkins has irrefutably proved that my theory was correct. I must say I am indebted to him." Again the little smile looped up one corner of his face.
I took a good look at Tufik then. He was pale and shaky, and his new suit looked as if he had slept in it. His collar was bent and wilted, and the green necktie had been taken off and exchanged for a ragged black one. "Miss Liz!" he said huskily. "I die; the heart is gone! My parent "
It renders them nervous and shaky, gives rise to palpitation, and is a factor in the production of the irritable or so-called "trotting-heart" and tends to impair the appetite and digestion." London Lancet. "I never smoke because I have seen the most efficient proofs of the injurious effects of tobacco on the nervous system." Dr. Brown-Sequard, the eminent French physiologist.
And then, when you finally came here, you had milord tagging along and you thinking you were in love with him! Maybe you think I wasn't shaky, girlie! The air castles got awfully wobbly, and it looked like they were going to cave in on us. But I was bound to stay in the game if I could, and Dick did all he could to get you to looking my way and it's all right, isn't it, Trixie?"
"Wimp says hurry up things shaky here expect attack by bears have tried to place rails elsewhere but not successful. Wimp says good night." Clark's eyes sparkled with anger and he hammered the key. There were other things he wanted to say and must say. But for all his repeated calls there was only silence, till in an interval, while he rubbed his throbbing fingers, the receiver began to tilt.
No wonder the bluecoats looked after them and smiled; no wonder the old fellow with the shaky legs, waiting at the corner for one of the squad to help him over, gave a sigh as he watched McFudd, with cane in air, drilling his recruits, all five abreast.
The engineer was a man of usual nonchalant nerve, whose bravery had always seemed a by-product of his nature and not due to an effort of the will, which gave point to Jim's question. "I am getting shaky in my old age, Captain," replied the engineer. "No danger of that," replied Jim. Again a match was lit and this time Berwick held the flame close to the dead man's face.
The other was a slim youngster in the early twenties, astonishingly like his older companion as to feature. Thompson looked at them, and back at the cowed driver who was feeling his neck and face with shaky fingers. Just then three things happened simultaneously. The traffic whistle blew.
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